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BSB Oulton Park

Its Bank holiday weekend in the UK and Oulton Park race track is within 40 minute drive, this weekend the BSB motorcycle event is on, so for a morning out and some high speed photography practice, I figured pop over and take a few shots

While these images aren’t from race day, some of the riders were pushing hard. If anything a little too hard, because the first hour 09:00-10:00 there was at least 3 red flags. The main reason for this was temperature, both the air was a very cool 7 degrees, and as we all know, cold track and cold tyre’s just don’t stick

So here are some example shots. I will be the first to say some of the focusing isn’t 100%, I used the auto focusing within Zone most of the time and played with A and S, with most shots at 1/1250-1/4000. It was a bright sunny morning, so ISO stayed low and while I didn’t have any trouble taking the shots, some of the results were hit and miss

As you can see I focused a lot on composition, selecting those images where riders are well separated, using angle and perspective. While the single rider alone on the apex is a great shot (below), showing multiple riders in various state of motion as they take the next turn, focused on getting past the next rider, seems to give a great result

I hope they all have a great race day on Monday 6th May, ride well, stay safe